Noble Knights Deck #770146 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 62 / Extra 13 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro and Xyz summons (Emperor Charles, Artorigus, Sacred Noble Knight of King Artorigus, Ultimate Flame Swordsman) backed by Noble Arms equip recursion.; Flame Swordsman and Kaiju boards: Dogoran (3000 ATK) and Immortal Phoenix Gearfried (3000 ATK) as direct board pressure.
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Noble Knight or Flame Swordsman starter, use its search effect for a Noble Arms or Infernoble Arms Equip Spell, equip it, then Synchro or Xyz Summon from the Extra Deck.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (2x Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Snow Rabbit, Nibiru, Morgan) answer the opponent's opening summon, then the engine rebuilds from the Graveyard through Heritage of the Chalice and Captain Roland.
• Recovery: Heritage of the Chalice and Noble Knight Medraut recover from the Graveyard, and Equip Spells recycle through Infernoble Knight Maugis and Captain Roland.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the Side Deck is empty, so no post-side plan exists in the list.

Why it scores here

The deck's engine is coherent. Searchers (20 searcher-text cards) reach a starter about 87% of the time in a 5-card hand (hypergeometric, Inferred), and Noble Knight and Flame Swordsman starters chain into Synchro and Xyz summons. Interaction is layered: two Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Snow Rabbit, Forbidden Droplet, Raigeki x2 and Flame Swordsrealm give the deck real answers to an opponent's turn. Closing power comes from 3000-ATK boss monsters. The score is held down because the list is over the OCG 60-card Main Deck maximum (62), which triggers the Illegal cap, and because the list has no Side Deck and no combo or usage data. Scores come from the system as a whole, not from averaging card scores, and archetype popularity did not add points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: Illegal main-deck size (62/60) (-10); No side deck (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*59.4 + 0.20*48.4 - 12 = 45.2; Illegal cap (size over limit) applied, so final = min(45.2, 40) = 40. Theoretical/structural-only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.87 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher engine with about 87% starter access in a 5-card hand (Inferred)
• Layered interaction: two Ash Blossom, Droplet, Ghost Ogre, Titanocider, Raigeki x2 (Verified card text)
• Several 3000-ATK boss monsters and Equip-based recursion (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Main Deck of 62 is over the OCG maximum of 60, so the list is illegal as exported (Verified)
• No Side Deck (Verified)
• Several Level-0 Equip Spells and Spells are dead without the Noble Arms board (Inferred)
• One passcode unresolved; list integrity unverified (Verified)

Critical choke points

• Starter access depends on Noble Knight and Flame Swordsman searchers; losing them to a hand trap or Droplet collapses the line (Inferred)
• Equip Spells are needed for Synchro and Xyz boss plays, so Raigeki or a Graveyard-clearing answer slows the engine (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck is 62 cards, outside the OCG range 40-60; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is Semi-Limited at 2 copies, which is legal; Side Deck is empty; Passcode 45231177 is unresolved; Card text and stats for resolved cards
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.87 for the searcher group; Interaction quality from card text; Recursion and consistency reads
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No archetype usage statistics: core and meta-standard comparison unavailable No tournament link: meta-share and match record absent Passcode 45231177 (2 copies) unresolved and counted as Main No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first and going-second splits, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied